Biliru
[aka Tambotalo]Classification: Austronesian
·severely endangered
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Severely endangered
20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
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<50
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50 speakers reported in 1981. There will be fewer today.
- OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
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Tutuba
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Narango
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Shark Bay
- LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS
The language has been under pressure from the closely related larger languages Tutuba in the east, Naranggo in the south, and the less closely related Shark Bay language in the north, to which speakers have shifted.
- More on Orthography
No literacy in language
- PLACES
- Espiritu Santo Island, Vanuatu
- LOCATION DESCRIPTION
Inland of southeast Espiritu Santo Island.